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Imagine the lines of right ascension - zero for Chaph, 11 for Merak and Dubhe (the "pointer stars"), 12 for Phad, and 14 for Alkaid.
Practise using your hands to measure angles in the sky.
Phad (or Phecda, Phekda) Gamma Ursae Majoris
Pherkad Gamma Ursae Minoris
Pherkard Delta Ursae Minoris
Pleione 28 Tauri - see Pleiades
Polaris Alpha Ursae Minoris
Polaris Australis Sigma Octantis
Pollux Beta Geminorum
Porrima Gamma Virginis ...
Named Stars: DUBHE (Alpha UMa) MERAK (Beta UMa) PHAD (Gamma UMa) MEGREZ (Delta UMa) ALIOTH (Epsilon UMa) MIZAR (Zeta UMa) ALCOR (80 UMa)
Once you find and identify the Big Dipper you can use it to find many other stars and constellations.
Other names for this star are Phad, Phekda, Phegda, Phekha, or Phacd. These names derive from the Arabic term Al Falidh meaning "The Thigh (of the Bear)".
Description of the Star ...
[8320] gamma Ursae Majoris, also known as Phad or Phecda ("the thigh"), is also part of the Ursa Major moving group. It is another main sequence dwarf, 84 light-years distant.
Delta Ursae Majoris is named Megrez, from the Arabic meaning ‘root of the tail'. Gamma Ursae Majoris is called Phad or Phecda, from the Arabic word meaning ‘the thigh'.
Alkaid (Benetnash, η UMa), Alula Australis (ξ UMa), Alula Borealis (ν UMa), Dubhe (α UMa), Megrez (Kaffa, δ UMa), Merak (β UMa), Mizar (ζ UMa), Muscida (ο UMa), Muscida (π1 UMa), Muscida (π2 UMa), Phad ...
in the 17th century, by cutting up parts of earlier constellations, there is no pre-17th century mythology associated with this constellation as a separate distinct entity.
Stars
:Stars with proper names::* (α Col) 2.65 Phact [Phaet, Phad, ...
 See also: Star, Sky, Phecda, Mizar, Alioth
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